[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

[Kurt Huhn]

Michael Schiller wrote:
> 
> There are actually 3 classes of powder used in common firearms these
> days. Modern smokeless powder is used in 99% of all modern firearms,
> then there is black powder that is used in all the antique arms, and
> reproductions of them, then there is Pyrodex (are there other makes?)
> which is a modern 'smokeless' replacement powder for guns designed for
> black powder. It's much safer than traditional black powder, but not
> safe enough to keep it's inventor from being killed in an explosion at
> the original Pyrodex factory :(
> 

The only brand of 'smokeless' blackpowder I've ever used was Pyrodex.  I
know there are others, but Pyrodex comes in nice little pre-measured
50gr cylinders that can be dropped right in the barrel.  Totally
freaking convenient.

However, I've never used Pyrodex in an antique.  Something about that
doesn't sit quite right with me...

> There was another replacement powder that was designed, but never went
> into production called Golden Powder. It was supposedly able to be cast
> and cartridgeless cartridges would be possible, but something must have
> gone wrong with it, as it never went into production. Up until this year
> (when I moved to WV I threw out lots of stuff) I had several pages of
> info on Golden Powder).
> 

H&K has a recoiless infantry weapon based on cartridge-less ammo.  It's
somewhere on the H&K site, I don't recall if it it's in production or
not though.


Kurt